A
daughter of the leader of Hamas in Gaza was admitted to an Israeli
hospital for emergency medical treatment this month after she suffered
complications from a routine procedure, two sources familiar with the
case said.

Ismail Haniyeh's daughter's
week-long admission to a hospital in Tel Aviv - which Israeli and
Palestinian officials declined to confirm or deny - shows humanitarian
coordination between the sides continues just weeks after the Gaza war
ended.

Haniyeh, who has 13
children, is the leader of the Islamist group in Gaza and one of its
most senior figures overall, serving as a deputy to Khaled Meshaal, who
lives in exile.Two sources - one
Palestinian and the other a foreign diplomat with knowledge of the case -
declined to name the daughter and, out of respect for her privacy,
asked that details of her condition not be published.

Like
many Hamas officials, Haniyeh spent the seven-week-long war largely in
hiding. His home in the northern part of the Gaza Strip was destroyed by
an Israeli air strike.

An Israeli official said he could not discuss specific medical admissions from Gaza.

But
he said that in most cases a request by a Palestinian doctor to allow a
patient across the border for urgent treatment was sufficient -
indicating Haniyeh may not have been personally involved in his
daughter's application.

During the
war and since it ended in late August, dozens of patients from Gaza have
been brought to hospitals in Israel, where the resources and technology
for advanced treatment and complicated operations are vastly better.

Hamas
is sworn to Israel's destruction but has voiced openness to a long-term
truce and a measure of cooperation with Israel which, along with
neighboring Egypt, controls access to the coastal enclave, home to 1.8
million Palestinians.

Israeli
media has reported that one of Haniyeh's granddaughter's was treated in
an Israeli hospital last November, while his mother-in-law sought
treatment in a Jerusalem hospital in June. (Reuters) Sun Oct 19, 2014